Russian Sues NASA Over Deep Impact Mission

When NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft hurls a barrel-size probe at a comet millions of miles from Earth on July 4, Marina Bai of Moscow will take
it very personally.

The 45-year-old mother of two is so upset about the space agency's scientific assault on the celestial body that she has taken the unusual step of
suing NASA in Moscow courts. Her lawsuit seeks to block the launch of the probe and to recover $311 million in "moral" damages.

Bai, a self-published author and spiritualist, said that she couldn't sleep after watching a television report about the Deep Impact mission, which
is led by a team of astronomers at the University of Maryland, when it was launched Jan. 12.

"Somewhere deep inside me a voice told me the whole mission had to be stopped," she said in an interview yesterday. "I fear that it could have an
impact on all humanity."

In court papers, Bai asserts that Deep Impact will "infringe upon my system of spiritual and life values, in particular on the values of every
element of creation, upon the unacceptability of barbarically interfering with the natural life of the universe, and the violation of the natural
balance of the universe."

Originally posted by MickeyDee
In court papers, Bai asserts that Deep Impact will "infringe upon my system of spiritual and life values, in particular on the values of every
element of creation, upon the unacceptability of barbarically interfering with the natural life of the universe, and the violation of the natural
balance of the universe."

Every element of creation, except Mankind apparently. Is Man not a naturally occuring element of creation?

Interfereing with the Natural Life of the Universe? In that case, I hope she's already sued Moscow, over the highways they've built her to drive
around on, the buildings she has to live in, the plumbing that brings water to her home, the clothesmakers who have given her things to wear... surely
these are all unnatural perversions which interfere with the Natural Life of the Universe...

Also, could she please define "The Natural Balance of the Universe", and prove such a thing's existence?

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